Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 11

• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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  Optimism, Doubt, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

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  Rome, Differences, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.21

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• We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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  Happiness, Wine, Emotional

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

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  Men, Wind, Political

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

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  Pain, Doors, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.66

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• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

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  God, Angel, Pride

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• Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

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  Pride, Keepers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.459

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• He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

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  Cutting, Teeth, Lions

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

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  Grows, Ifs

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• He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

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  Change, Integrity, Roots

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• If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

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  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.95

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• Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

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  Mind, Weakness, Physicians

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

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  Power, Overcoming, Cowardice

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.34

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• Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

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  Pain, Shadow, Substance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

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  Character, Men, Support

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.167

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• The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

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  Giants, Literature, Speech

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

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  Diffidence, Uncertainty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

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  Certain, Diffidence, Has Beens

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

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  Pride, Proud, Ancestry

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

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  Dull, Influence, Authorship

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• Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

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  Ignorance, Vices, Principles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309

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• Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

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  Denial, Bears, Stout

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• God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

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  Prayer, Excuse, Good Work

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

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  Ice, Apathy, Lenses

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• If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

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  Indignation, Ifs

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